24 Great Facebook Tricks and Hacks

1. Hide Your Online Status From Selected Friends:

So you want to use Facebook chat but don’t want some people to see your online status? Simply open up the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list called BlockList.

Once the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. Bingo! You will now appear offline to everybody in the BlockList.

2. View a Friend’s Profile Without Messy Applications:

If you are like me, you often get annoyed by the dozens of silly applications that people have added to their profile. Here’s a Grease Monkey script that allows you to view any profile without all those applications. Remember: the Mozilla Firefox web browser is a prerequisite for running Greasemonkey.

3. Display Your Facebook Status On Your WordPress Blog:

Want to display your Facebook status updates on your WordPress blog? There is a plugin that does exactly that. StatusPress lets you display your status updates to a widget on your WordPress blog.

4. Access Facebook Chat Through Your Desktop:

No need to go to Facebook.com if all you want to do is use Facebook chat. You can do it right from your desktop using clients like social.im , Adium or ChitChat.

5. Update Facebook Status From Firefox:

If you are a firefox addict you don’t need to use any other software to update your Facebook status. Simply install the FireStatus add-on and update your status right from your browser. You can also use the Facebook Toolbar to completely manage Facebook from your Firefox browser.

6. Create A Photo Collage From Pictures Of Your Facebook Friends:

Easily create a photo collage from profile pictures of all your Facebook friends using a simple Facebook app called Photo Collage.

7. Add A New friend But Hide It From Your Status Update:

A great tutorial by Tim Watson walks you through the process of hiding specific actions from your status updates.

8. Schedule Facebook Messages To Be Send Later:

If you want to schedule your Facebook messages to be send sometime in the future, Sendible is a great tool to do that. You can also use Sendible to schedule your status updates.

9. How To Share Flickr Photos On Facebook:

My Flickr is a Facebook application that lets you display your Flickr photos and photo sets on Facebook so your friends can view and comment on them without leaving Facebook.

10. How To Download Facebook Photo Albums:

Ever felt the need to download complete photo albums from Facebook. You can easily do it with either a Windows desktop application named FotoBounce or a great Firefox add-on FacePad.

11. Upload Photos On Facebook From Your Phone:

All the smart phones like iPhone and Blackberry make it simple to upload photos to your Facebook account but how would you do it if you have a regular phone? Here is a great tutorial to walk you through that.

12. Magic Circles On Facebook:

You might have heard about the Konami code that makes red blurry circles on your Facebook page. This might be one of the most popular Facebook hidden tricks. Here’s how to do it:

Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key then press up & down & Magic circles will appear!

To stop them simply reload your page.

13. Use Your Facebook Like A Pirate:

Do you love talking like a pirate? You can set your Facebook to appear like a pirate page by going into Current Language Settings and setting it to English (Pirate).

14. How To Insert Cool Symbols In Your Status Updates:

Make your status updates interesting by inserting cool symbols. Simply copying them from this list and pasting in your status updates.


15. Automatically Poke Friends That Poke You:

Don’t have enough time to poke back friends who poke you on Facebook? Automate it with a Grease Monkey script called Facebook Autopoke.

16. Upload Photos From PicasaTo Facebook:

Upload photos to your Facebook account directly from Picasa using the Picasa app for Facebook. You can also upload the Picasa captions and resize your photos before uploading them to Facebook.

17. Search Facebook Like A Pro:

Not everybody knows how powerful Facebook search is. Similar to any large search engine, Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you search like a pro. For example if you are looking for a person named John Marsh and filter your results down to only people who are married, you can try name: John Marsh status:married. A complete list of search tips for Facebook can be found here.

18. How To Update Facebook Status From Gmail:

Facebook gadget for Gmail allows you to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail.

19. How To Access Gmail From Facebook:

If you seldom have to leave Facebook just to go check your Gmail inbox, check out Fmail. It is a great application that lets you check your Gmail from within your Facebook inbox.

20. See Facebook Twitter style:

If you love Twitter more than Facebook, you can view your Facebook just like you view your Twitter using this grease monkey script.

21. Import Facebook Friends To Twitter:

FB140 is a simple tool that lets you find all your Facebook friends that are using Twitter so you can easily follow them.

22. Access Facebook From Microsoft Outlook:

This is a great tip for people attending colleges or working in places that block Facebook, but allow you access to Microsoft Outlook. Simple install the FBlook plugin and access Facebook from Outlook.

23. Display Your Facebook Status Upside Down:

This is a cool and fun trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to FlipText and type in your status. Then simply click on Flip Text and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.

24. Update Facebook Status Using Twitter:

Wouldn’t you love to update your status on both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Just install the Twitter application for Facebook. Once synced, your tweets including the #fb tag would automatically be posted as status updates on your Facebook.

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Cool photo booth effects download for Free

If you are a MAC user then you must be using Photo booth and ichat which comes pre-installed  for Mac OS X and iOS.Photo Booth allow us to take pictures by clicking center red button and add effects to our picture and videos.Photo Booth app is cool and it is really fun to apply different effect which you can use to distort your video and photos. PhotoBooth currently comes with 56 different photo and video effects while iPad 2 additionally includes Thermal,Mirror,X-ray,Kaleidoscope,Normal,Light Tunnel,Squeeze,Twirl and Stretch.

If you already bored from these old effects and are looking for better and more interesing photo booth effects then you can use below download options to install each effect.

How to Install these Photo Booth effects ?

• Download as many photo booth effects as you want.
• Unzip if they are zipped.
• In Finder, navigate to /System/Library/Compositions then use Use command-click to select all the recommended compositions and Copy
• Again in Finder, navigate to ~/Library/Compositions Then paste

To uninstall, empty the ~/Library/Compositions or /Library/Compositions folder.

More iChat effects

    More ichat effects 2.05(updated) comes with a bundle of more than 56 effects for iChat and Photobooth in realtime.It does require to have OS X 10.5 Leopard installed.
These are super funny effects to photos and videos or video conferencing.Featuring more than 32 custom video effects like clown mask,holiday decoration(animated) and some more cut-outs and scene.You can download More ichat effects 2.05 for free from http://ismileys.free.fr

CatEye

 

From B-L-A-C-K-O-P, you can get CatEye,which has Five sets of eight video effects for Leopard's iChat and Photo Booth .Download CatEye
Each set has its own theme:

• RetroPixels – memories of 60s and 70s video effects.
• Love For 80s – bringing back Space Invaders, Pong and VHS (yes, that’s video tape quality, ladies and gentlemen!).
• Bent Pels – optical image distortion with a twist.
• BoobToob – a set of TV screen effects.
• FewTile – tiled-images effect.

To uninstal CatEye

1. Use Finder to open the /Library/Compositions folder.

2. Identify any/all CatEye effects (they have .qtz file extension).

3. Throw the effects into the Trash and empty it.

 

FreakShow

Freak Show has 16 Apple Photo Booth effects. Freak Show provides free Photo Booth-like effects for all Tiger Macs

Pros: Mimics pretty much all of Photo Booths functionality, Paid version captures video and offers additional effects, brings Photo Booth’s effects to the massesThe effects include stretching, magnifying and swirls, all which have the potential to provide hours of entertainment!

Cons: Not-quite-seamless integration with the iApps, performance is sluggish on even some newer systems, video capture requires a fairly robust system

If you know more Photo Booth effects please share with us ! OR if you have any issues with these effects use below comment system to reach me.

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Shutdown Computer With Command Prompt or shortcut for shutdown

Here is a trick to shutdown your computer  at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it, well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in

Start=>Run

Type Code:        at 11:35 shutdown -s

To cancel or Abort the shutdown:

Type Code:                   shutdown -a

Type  Code:  “shutdown –s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on network if you have administrative access.  Here computername needs to be replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.

Alternative method to create a shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut

Step 1: Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts”.
Step 2: In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut”,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.

Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours etc.,

Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.

Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse

To abort or cancel the shutdown:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to ” shutdown -a” without the quotes.

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Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed

1. Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications.

2. Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM.

 

3. Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is low on RAM (less than 64 MB).

 

4. Do not clutter your Desktop with a lot of shortcuts. Each shortcut on the desktop uses up to 500 bytes of RAM

5. Empty the recycle bin regularly. The files are not really deleted from your hard drive until you empty the recycle bin.

6. Delete the temporary internet files regularly.

7. Defragment your hard drive once every two months. This will free up a lot of space on your hard drive and rearrange the files so that your applications run faster.

 

8. Always make two partitions in your hard drive. Install all large Softwares (like PSP, Photoshop, 3DS Max etc) in the second partition. Windows uses all the available empty space in C drive as virtual memory when your Computer RAM is full. Keep the C Drive as empty as possible.

 

9. When installing new Softwares disable the option of having a tray icon. The tray icons use up available RAM, and also slow down the booting of your PC. Also disable the option of starting the application automatically when the PC boots. You can disable these options later on also from the Tools or preferences menu in your application.

10. Protect your PC from dust. Dust causes the CPU cooling fan to jam and slow down thereby gradually heating your CPU and affecting the processing speed. Use compressed air to blow out any dust from the CPU. Never use vacuum.

 

RAM IS THE WORKING AREA (DESKTOP) OF THE CPU, KEEP IT AS EMPTY AND UNCLUTTERED AS POSSIBLE!

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Useful Mozilla Firefox shortcuts keys

Shortcut keys                        Action 

CTRL+A                     Selects the all items on active page

CTRL+B                     Display the "Organize Bookmarks" dialog box

CTRL+D                     Include the active page to your Bookmarks list

CTRL+F                     Display the "Find" dialog box to search text

CTRL+I                      Display the Bookmarks pane

CTRL+H                     Display the History sidebar of Mozilla Firefox

CTRL+N                     Use to open new Mozilla Firefox page

CTRL+P                     Use to print the active web page

CTRL+R                     Use to reload the active web page

CTRL+T                     Display a new Tab in active Firefox window

CTRL+U                     View the source code of active web page

CTRL+W                    Closes the active Mozilla Firefox window

CTRL++                     Use to increase the font size of active page

CTRL+ -                    Use to decrease the font size of active page

CTRL+Tab                  Move to next Tab in Mozilla Firefox

ALT+Home                 Use to open the home page of internet explorer

ALT+Left Arrow           Go to previous page of active page

ALT+Right Arrow          Go to next page of active page

ALT+B                       Go to Mozilla Firefox Favorites Menu

ALT+D                       Go to address bar of current Firefox page

ALT+E                       Go to Mozilla Firefox Edit Menu

ALT+F                       Go to Mozilla Firefox File Menu

ALT+S                       Go to Mozilla Firefox History Menu

ALT+T                       Go to Mozilla Firefox Tools Menu

ALT+V                       Go to Mozilla Firefox View Menu 

Tab                           Move forward between all items on active web page 

F5                             Refresh the active web page

F7                             F7 activate the cursor to move with keyboard 

CTRL+SHIFT+DEL         Use to clear all Private Data history 

CTRL+SHIFT+D            Use to Bookmarks all Firefox Tabs 

F11                           Press F11 key to view any webpage in full-screen view and then again press for normal view.

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